Natalia Burianyk

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Natalia Burianyk

Natalia Dr. Natalia Burianyk is a Ukraine-born Canadian living in The Hague. She is a graduate of the University of Alberta, Canada, with an MA in Linguistics and PhD in Literature. She completed the Haskayne Management Development Program at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada.

Natalia has an extensive teaching experience, having taught different levels of Ukrainian and Russian at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta, and Harvard University.
After graduation she started a consulting company in Calgary which provided cross-cultural training for Canadian and American companies involved internationally. Among her corporate clients were Enbridge, BP, Halliburton, TransCanada Pipelines, Anadarko, Tri-Can Well Service.

As a consultant, Natalia acted as Coordinator of the Canadian Organizing Committee for the privately held Canada-Ukraine meetings in the energy sector. Her company organized several senior-level international business forums featuring emerging markets with the participation of Naftogas of Ukraine (Ukrainian National Oil and Gas Company), the World Bank, Chevron Canada Resources, Nova Chemicals, Enbridge, Agency for Rational Energy Use (Ukraine), Gastransit (Ukraine-Russia-Turkey), Governments of Canada and Alberta. She is past president of the Alberta Chapter of Women in International Trade (OWIT), past Vice-President Chapter Development of OWIT International, past board member of the Exporters and Importers Association of Alberta. She is a member of European Professional Women's Network.

Natalia loves art, literature, travelling, good food and wine, and shopping in Paris.